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Claude 3 notices when a sentence about pizza toppings doesn't fit with its surrounding text. Whole internet including Tim Sweeney and Margaret Mitchell concludes that it's probably self-aware now. (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

The problem is that whether or not an AI is self-aware isn't a technical question - it's a philosophical one.

And our current blinkered focus on STEM and only STEM has made it so that many (most?) of those most involved in AI R&D are woefully underequipped to make a sound judgment on such a matter.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

It’s not self aware, it’s just okay at faking it. Just because some people might believe it doesn’t make it so, people also don’t believe in global warming and think the earth is flat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And our current blinkered focus on STEM and only STEM has made it so that many (most?) of those most involved in AI R&D are woefully underequipped to make a sound judgment on such a matter.

who would be equipped to make a sound judgment on such a matter?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Philosophy majors.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Don't even have to be majors, an introductory course in epistemology does wonders in breaking ones self-confidence, in a good way.